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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1965
Page
5
A family holiday recipe spread shows two confections: pecan divinity puffs made from sugar, corn syrup and egg whites with pecans and vanilla, and miniature rice cereal marshmallow bars with butter, marshmallows, pecans, pressed into a pan and cooled for cutting.
Readable fragments present two fudge recipes. Fancy Free Fudge uses sugar milk marshmallow cream butter salt chocolate pecans vanilla and yields 8 inch pan squares. Layered Mocha Fudge mixes sugar coffee half and half syrup butter chocolate and pecans to create a two layer candy in a small pan.
A simple candy recipe calls for one cup sugar one pound pecan halves a tablespoon butter a pinch of salt and egg whites. Fold sugar into egg whites then mix in pecans melt butter pour into a jelly roll pan bake at 325 degrees for thirty minutes stirring every ten minutes and finish with a salt sprinkle. Cool yields about four cups.
A festive party guide urges soft music candlelight and decorative touches to set mood. It suggests an elegant table with a special cloth candles holly and colorful ornaments. A cheese ball recipe with mixed textures accompanies a new appetizer Miniature Spanish Sausage Balls with pineapple and olives.
Mr. Franz L. Woodworth turns ninety and is honored at a birthday dinner at the Ohio University Inn. Hostess Mrs. Charles Woodworth and guests from Athens attend, with Kalamonda leaves from Florida for table decorations.
Miss Nancy Gaston Miss Delia Rapp and Miss Linda Wakefield hosted 80 friends and former classmates at Athens High School for a semi formal Christmas party at the Wakefield Motor Ranch Route 50W Music by the Bourbons. Employees of Frischs Big Boy met at the home of Mr and Mrs Larry Bethscheider for a Christmas party with buffet gift exchange tree trimming and games. Presents were exchanged around the tree by numerous guests including Lou Anon and Mary Ann Anon Don McCallister John Gaus Bill Gould Hubert Henderson Joe Tokarz Thelma Megealf Marian Jones Harold Todd Nancy Doyle Karen Morris Ruth Kinkade Dick Wells Hugh Werner Mike Vamos Don Burns Virgil Markham and Don Young. Mr and Mrs Tom Henry Route 5 hosted a dinner and Christmas party where gifts were exchanged around the tree by Andy Kostival Cliff Andrews Mike Kostival and Imogene Yeager. Forty eight children from the Athens County Children's Home joined Lakeview Center for a Christmas party with bowling and miniature golf followed by refreshments.
Miss Carol Kendall returns from Stanford as a sophomore while Barbara Hall at Northwestern and Liz Cline from Chillicothe Student Teaching are home with their parents. Elmwood Place’s Max Evans, recent LaCroix award recipient, is home from Harvard. Other students include Holly Hecht now at Ohio University, cadet Larry Hunter at Staunton, Jim Gardner in Yale law and the Gardners of Detroit. Additional students Barstow in OSU Pharmacy, Dupler from Miami, Drach at Miami University, Rosenberg from Michigan, Shuster at Culver Stockton, Nancy Russell at Miami, and Harvard freshman Eric Gustavson join holiday gatherings.
Mr and Mrs Austin Hawk were honored on their 56th wedding anniversary with a turkey dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Hawk in New Marshfield. The Hawks have three children Hazel Martin Paul Hawk and Charles Hawk four grandchildren seven great grandchildren with guests from Athens Chesterhill The Plains and New Marshfield. Mrs Faye Waddell underwent surgery at Veteran's Memorial Hospital Pomeroy.
Mr and Mrs Virgil A Wolfe of Columbus announce the birth of a son Michael Allen on December 16 Grandparents are Mr and Mrs H A Wolfe of Route 4 and Mr and Mrs C F Wade of Columbus.
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